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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wai-keuing Lau
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Danying Feng | Liang Tian | Qi Shu | Ye Liu
Jason says: “You’ve got to sort of admire a movie like A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. It’s filled with characters that could easily be defined by how they are handicapped or burdensome, and yet it’s not a pity-baiting exercise. Well, not more
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joe Cornish
Starring: Alex Esmail | Franz Drameh | Jodie Whittaker | John Boyega | Leeon Jones | Luke Treadaway | Simon Howard
Jason says: “ATTACK THE BLOCK got ridiculously high praise from genre fans at festival showings this year, and it’s not quite that good. Then, in between its US opening and its expansion to Boston, the London riots started, and talk
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Regev Contes
Diane says: “Entertaining docu from Israel, screened at the Boston Jewish Film Festival today. Director Regev Contes tries to help his father get a failing insurance company back on its feet. But Dad and his two buddies would much rather
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Debra Granik
Starring: Dale Dickey | Jennifer Lawrence | John Hawkes | Kevin Breznehan | Lauren Sweetser | Shelley Waggener
Michael says: “Got out to the Independent Film Festival of Boston tonight, and was not disappointed by Debra Granik’s outstanding WINTER’S BONE. This taut, atmospheric drama has already racked up some awards at Sundance and Berlin, and I sure hope
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ben Steinbauer
TC says: “Back in the mid 70s, Jack Rebney was a television producer hired to host a Winnebago sales video. When they finished the video, the outtakes started leaking out, and it seems Jack had a penchant for swearing. This
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robecca Richman Cohen
Jason says: “WAR DON DON was what they shouted about ten years ago in Sierra Leone to announce that a vicious civil war (one barely reported abroad) was over. The end of a war, however, is seldom accompanied by an
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Uros Stojanovic
Starring: Katarina Radivojevic | Nenad Jezdic | Olivera Katarina | Sonja Kolacaric | Stefan Kapicic
Jason says: “The hackneyed phrase that is often used to describe this movie is ‘a Serbian AMELIE,’ which I think does it a disservice because, well, I didn’t like AMELIE much at all. Gilliam might be a better comparison; after
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Omar Majeed
Jason says: “So, if you’re making a movie about the birth of Muslim punk rock, who do you put at the center? Even if you know the players, that might not be as obvious as it seems: The word ‘taqwacore’
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bill Guttentag | Dan Sturman
Thom says: “I was all set to watch this out of obligation. Not that I haven’t been a strong advocate my entire life of universal acceptance and love but this was a story I’m intimately familiar with because of demonstrating
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mat Whitecross
Starring: Andy Serkis | Bill Milner | Luke Evans | Naomie Harris | Olivia Williams | Ray Winstone | Toby Jones
Bruce says: “Director Mat Whitecross figures that a straightforward biopic could not possibly do Ian Dury justice. His artistic decisions pay off. SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL is a nontraditional take on a very nontraditional subject. In addition
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